That was in February and they gave those 6 folks a total of $300,000. In the following 9 months they dumped millions more to many other candidates but I am sure that had no strings attached.

What is the difference?

Glad no one asked, the AEA wanted these legislators to give them government money, they regularly deliver and obstruct on the AEA’s behalf.

When charter schools were being debated did you see a single story about how the AEA had bought legislators?

No.

Again…

The AEA wants government money directly given to them by the state and they have spent 10s of million of dollars to make that happen and no one seems concerned.

Payday lenders want the legislature to leave them alone and allow them to function within the law with out attempting to put them out of business, they have given legislators a fraction of what the AEA but they are monsters.

Because, in the end, the money those lawmakers received didn’t have an interest rate and it was theirs to keep. But don’t think for a moment it was free.

Final note: It might be time to move Kyle Whitmire to a beat that is more appropriate for his skills (I am not sure being a disingenuous douche is a skill) because this whole politics thing isn’t working for him.

Some members of Bergdahl’s platoon have criticized him, labeling Bergdahl a deserter.

“I was pissed off then, and I am even more so now with everything going on,” former Sgt. Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl’s platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009, told CNN last year. “Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war, and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him.”

Bergdahl was freed in May when President Barack Obama agreed to swap five Taliban prisoners who had been detained in Guantanamo Bay to secure Bergdahl’s freedom, sending those detainees to Qatar.

A group of 47 Republican senators has written an open letter to Iran’s leaders warning them that any nuclear deal they sign with President Barack Obama’s administration won’t last after Obama leaves office.

Organized by freshman Senator Tom Cotton and signed by the chamber’s entire party leadership as well as potential 2016 presidential contenders Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, the letter is meant not just to discourage the Iranian regime from signing a deal but also to pressure the White House into giving Congress some authority over the process.

Here is the New York Times on those 47 Senators…

Here is the New York Times on Berghdahl… Now do we understand how absurd all that “traitor” talk was about the letter to Iran?

Remember, on this Bergdahl stuff, the press ripped apart the people he deserted to help Obama distract what this really was.

47 Republican Senators sent an OPEN letter to Iran telling them that if the deal they make with President Obama is not in America’s best interests, they will not honor it when Obama leaves office.

The group of 47 Senate Republicans, in their open letter to “the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran” released Monday, asserted Iranians “may not fully understand” the U.S. constitutional system, which gives Congress power over treaties.

They warned any deal between Iran and Obama could be dead in the water once the President leaves office.

“We will consider any agreement regarding your nuclear-weapons program that is not approved by the Congress as nothing more than an executive agreement,” the senators wrote.

“The next President could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen,” they said — adding that Congress would also alter it.

Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, met here today with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and discussed a variety of Middle Eastern issues, including the situations in Iraq and Lebanon and the prospect of peace talks between Syria and Israel.

Ms. Pelosi, the third-ranking elected official in the United States after the president and the vice president, is the most senior American politician to visit the country since relations between the United States and Syria faltered in 2003. Her visit has been criticized by President Bush and other administration officials, who have sought to isolate Syria diplomatically.

Jim Wright, the Democratic House speaker during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, was accused of interfering when he met with opposing leaders in Nicaragua’s contra war. Three House Democrats went to Iraq in 2002 before President George W. Bush’s invasion to try to head off war.

Ted Kennedy willing to sabotage nuclear talks to become President (emphasis mine):

“On 9-10 May of this year,” the May 14 memorandum explained, “Sen. Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.” (Tunney was Kennedy’s law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) “The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.”

Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. “The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,” the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.”

Kennedy made Andropov a couple of specific offers.

First he offered to visit Moscow. “The main purpose of the meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA.” Kennedy would help the Soviets deal with Reagan by telling them how to brush up their propaganda.

Then he offered to make it possible for Andropov to sit down for a few interviews on American television. “A direct appeal … to the American people will, without a doubt, attract a great deal of attention and interest in the country. … If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interviews. … The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side.”

Kennedy would make certain the networks gave Andropov air time–and that they rigged the arrangement to look like honest journalism.

Kennedy’s motives? “Like other rational people,” the memorandum explained, “[Kennedy] is very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations.” But that high-minded concern represented only one of Kennedy’s motives.

“Tunney remarked that the senator wants to run for president in 1988,” the memorandum continued. “Kennedy does not discount that during the 1984 campaign, the Democratic Party may officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans and elect their candidate president.”

Time information gets out to the people. We have two budgets. We must stop having two budgets if we are to “fix” our state. The General fund gets all the news with its short fall. The BIG budget has a huge SURPLUS.

It is past time that we unhandcuff ourselves for our own benefit.

I’m talking about annual budgets not the $5-6B in longer term debt for PSCA bonds.

Heads up ALABAMA.

If this is every going to happen, it has to happen now because the AEA is in disarray.